Palynologial analysis of a core from Ganli-Gol wetland reveals the Late-Holocene vegetation dynamics and the role of climate and man on the past environment in northwestern Iran.Our pollen diagram shows substantial changes in vegetation over the period 3000-1600cal.BP.Artemisia and/or Chenopodiaceae must have abundantly contributed in the vegetatio
With few exceptions, the majority of biblical scholars (Euroamericans and Africans) concentrate on comparing ancient Israelite proverbs with the so-called ancient Near Eastern proverbs.Despite the importance of proverbs in Sub-Saharan Africa it is doubly unfortunate that the majority of African biblical scholars did not think it wise to compare pro
Mindfulness foundation is an excellent method of the human spiritual development by the reasonable thinking and consideration, which was established by Lord Buddha a long time ago.There are four ways of thinking and consideration-(i) form (body), (ii) sensation, (iii) spiritual and (iv) Dhamma.In this paper, we propose the use of the form considera
Animal distribution maps serve many purposes such as estimating transmission risk of zoonotic pathogens to both animals and humans.The reliability and usability of such maps is highly dependent on the quality of the input data.However, decisions on how to perform livestock surveys are often based on previous work without considering possible conseq